Wednesday, May 10, 2017

What do you do?

Hello everyone(is anyone even here?)..Being a mom of twins took over my life. I hardly found any time to write. Last September, my kids started school and I m trying to get control of my life. So about the title..I was asked the question by a person I met at swim centre and I was not able to give an answer.  I take sense of pride of being a mom and taking care of them but she was like - what else do you do. What do you enjoy doing? I go on," I keep the house running (cook, dishes, laundry etc etc). I do fitness. I listen to music while getting some of these things done." So that brought me to the question: what did I enjoy doing the most? I really don't seem to have an answer. Growing up, I used to read for pleasure (fiction). But now I can't sit down to finish any book. I read online articles and Facebook /whatsapp stuff. I bake for the kids occasionally ;my specialties being blackforest cake, french macarons, cookies and cupcakes . I do art projects with them; that's a recent endeavor I took upon-canvas, acrylic paint, water colors, tempera paint. Swimming was on my to do list for along time and I have tremendous fear of water. I finally joined a class two months back and learnt some basics. And now I keep practicing about twice a week; there is along way to go though. The first step is to face your fear and I think I have done that successfully. The key is to relax in the water but I m nervous. Okay, let's wind up the swimming. What else do I do? Like every other mom, I chauffeur my kids to all their classes after they are back from school. In the mornings, I m busy packing their lunch and getting them ready for school. They take the bus to school for which I m very grateful. Occasionally they miss the bus and I have to drop them. Then I have my coffee and catch up with messages and call up family if I have to. Get some chores done( this bucket is always full). Have a light breakfast.  Then either swim or DR exercise(I will get deeper into it at a later post). Shower and get any groceries done( there is unfortunately no one stop shop; Indian store, bulk store, regular store) or any outside work done like returning books to library, any returns or exchanges.Then it's time for lunch and then get some cooking done for dinner. By this time, the kids come home and then it gets busy with their snack, running them around classes, dinner and reading with kids and put them to sleep. Amidst all this, trying to find some time to study and get back to work. So this is what my life is currently like. I seem to be a jack of all trades but master of none:( Hope you are all doing good. I will try to keep up writing. Thanks to the lady that made me to think about writing:)

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